Bottle.



Patented Aug. I4, |900.

J. T. JUHNSON.

BGTTLE.

(Application led Sept. 15, 1899.)

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' rTnp STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB T. JOHNSON, OF KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 655,872, dated August 14, 1900. Application iiled September l5, 1899. Serial No. 730,604. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB T. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Knoxville, inthe county of Knox'and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Bot tle, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in bottles, jars, and analogous receptacles.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of bottles, jars, and analogous receptacles, more especially the means for closing the same, and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient construction whereby the closure of such a receptacle may have either a sliding or an interlocking `connection with the neck of the receptacle,

as desired or as vthe contents may require.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical sectional view,partly in elevation, showing a capclosure having a sliding connection with the exterior of the neck of a bottle. Fig. 2 is a similarview, showing the cap-closure having an interlocking connection with the neck. Fig. 3 is a sectional view, partlyin elevation, showing the cap applied to a jar.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

5 designates the neck of a bottle which is provided on its exterior with screw-threads 6, located at a point below the top of the neck, and the latter is provided with a smooth upper portion 7, located above the screw-threads G and adapted to be engaged by a cap-closure 8, as illust-rated in Fig. l of the accompanying drawings, to provide a sliding connection with the neck.

The engaging face ofthe capclosure,which is rendered elastic by the means hereinafter described, is adapted to have the screwthreads 6 embedded init when the cap-closure is arranged as illustrated in Fig. 2 to provide an interlocking connection between it and the neck of the bottle 5. The neck of the bottle is cylindrical, and the screw-threads 6 project beyond the plane of the smooth upper portion 7 in order to interlock with the capclosure 8.

. The cap-closure 8, which is preferably constructed of sheet metal or other suitable material, isprovided with an elastic lining 9, of cork or any other suitable material, which will enable the cap-closure to engage either the smooth upper portion or the threaded lower portion of the neck of a bottle or analogous receptacle, and the said lining, which may be arranged only on the vertical walls of the cap-closure, is preferably extended over the top of the same, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings. The cap is adapted to form a closure for a jar l0, which is provided with a cylindrical neck ll, shown in side elevation in Fig. 3, and provided with a lower threaded portion l2 and an upper smooth portion 13. The cap-closure 14C-,Which is shown in engagement with the threads, as well as with the smooth upper portion, is provided with an elastic lining 15, which may be secured within the cap-closu re by anysuitable means. v

It will be seen that the improvements herein shown and described are applicable to bot'- tles, jars, and analogous receptacles and that the cylindrical neck with the smooth upper portion and the lower threaded portion enables the same cap-closu re to be employed for eifecting either a sliding oran interlocking connection with the receptacle at the option of the` user. It will also be apparent that when the capclosure is engaged only with the smooth upper portion of the neck the con= nection is as tight as that effected in an ordinary bottle with an ordinary cork and that when the cap-closure is engaged with the screw-threads it is enabled to resist great internal pressure and may be readily removed and replaced. Furthermore, it will be seen that bottles may be shipped with the capclosures engaging the lower threaded portions and that the capclosures will engage 'liquidtight the smooth upper portion after having engaged the lower threaded portion.

The combination of a receptacle having a cylindrical neck practically of the same diamA l substantially .as and for the purpose dero scribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in l(he presence of two Witnesses.

JACOB T. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

RoBT. E. CRUMP, M. PERRY HAHN. 

